The following has had me in a bit of a tizzy.
What bothers me about the above example is that I cannot easily see the relationship between the two clauses [if that is the correct technical term]. It feels too vague or abstract. Who has incurred the debt-those whose accounts cannot be collected, or the entity responsible for service delivery?When it is highly probably that some accounts will prove uncollectible, escalating consumer debt can lead to service delivery backlogs.
Also....the sentence does something unexpected: usually one sees the following construction:
[Problem]conjunction[Solution], but here we seem to have [Problem preceded by padding]conjunction[consequence]
This has been driving me nuts over the last few days.
Would someone please explain to me what the example I gave is saying, and why it may feel wrong, but still be technically correct?
I think that what the author of this document wanted to say was: "Uncollectible accounts can give rise to escalating consumer debt and service delivery backlogs."
Am I just being irrational again? [Don't mind if you tell me that yes, I am being silly]